I recently spent a couple of hours reducing 1k lines of code produced by an LLM to about 100. Purely extrapolation, but imagine what if your project was 50k instead of 500k?

If we scale that effort up from 1k lines to 500k, I'd be spending a few thousand hours optimizing the implementation.

Even if I ended up with a project of 50k lines, that would take multiple times the effort it took me to get this app ready for the initial release.

Realistically, I wouldn't have finished the project at all.

You want to reduce lines of code? Next you'll be trying to reduce the number of PRs, then what will you use for productivity metrics?

That's a bit silly to assume the LLM will 10x all of the code.

It doesn't happen often to me. If it does, I find it often handles extra edge cases I only would have found by using the customer as a guinea pig.